How to use all your loyalty cards with Apple Wallet straight from the lock screen

If you use Apple Pay you’ll be familiar with the double tap of the home button from the lock screen, to let you pay for goods under £30 just using your phone. You’ll need an iPhone 6 or later for the NFC technology that makes all this possible, to be incorporated.

When you double-tap the home button from the lock screen, you’re actually accessing Apple Wallet which securely stores your credit cards but can also store other items like boarding passes and tickets. But wouldn’t it be great if you could also access all your loyalty cards from this interface too? Well you can, but your need a third party app called Stocard, since currently Apple Wallet doesn’t support most loyalty cards.

Capture your loyalty cards using Stocard

First you’ll need to open up the Stocard app and start capturing all you cards. This is very easy – especially if the cards have bar codes since you can scan them in using your phone’s camera. For example for a Tesco Clubcard, start typing and choose Tesco from the list of cards available (1, 2):

Add a Tesco clubcard to Stocard

Since the Tesco card has a barcode, you’ll be prompted to scan it in. Otherwise you’ll enter the number from the card manually:

Scanning in your loyalty card’s barcode using the smartphone’s camera

Repeat this process until all your cards are captured:

List of captured cards

So now you could just load up the app, select the card, and hand over the phone to be scanned. But we’ll go one step further and add the most used cards to Apple Wallet so they will be available straight from the lock screen, which is far more convenient. Even more so if you are using Apple Pay anyway.

Integrating select Stocard loyalty cards with Apple Wallet

You don’t want all these cards available through Apple Wallet – I’ve currently got Tesco’s and Costa enabled. Click on the cards you want to add to Wallet and click on the Add to Wallet icon:

Add Costa card to Apple Wallet

Using your loyalty cards from the lock screen

Now when you double tap the home button, you’ll activate Apple Wallet and see your credit cards as usual. But below, you’ll also see your loyalty cards:

Access Wallet from lock screen

Click on the Stocard tab at the bottom of the screen:

Choose your loyalty card

You can swipe between the loyalty cards you have activated. Then you can hand over your phone to the cashier to let them scan it. Depending on the store’s scanner, the barcode won’t always scan – but it certainly works in Costa and my local Tesco’s. And if it doesn’t they can type in the card manually.

Swipe to view other cards

You can pull your credit card back to the foreground by clicking again at the bottom of the screen.

Give it a try and please let me know how you get on or if you have another way of doing this.

Seems like a great tool. I have loaded my cards and only a couple of them have the add to wallet option. I am in New Zealand and have yet to use it but it has all the cards we use here and in Austraila in the index. Looking forward to trying it out.????

It just means that you can open the store card from the lock screen (if that feature is available: some of them allow locational services, so appear on the lock screen when your there. Like clubcard and cineworld).

i also find it easier to have all of my cards in one location, rather than having to find the appropriate app (which I have A LOT of) and (sometimes) have to login wait for the card to load.

I don’t carry a wallet, so it’s an ideal solution, and encourages me to use loyalty cards more often, receiving rewards and savings that I wasn’t benefitting from before.

Thanks for the guide. Added Tesco and Sainsbury cards easily enough. Any idea if they can be loaded onto the Apple Watch? (It seems from the Watch icon on the phone, it only allows the addition of debit or credit cards).

Gidon’s obsession with technology began at an early age with a BBC B Micro computer. After working for 12 years at British Telecom travelling around the world as a technology researcher he opened a technology retail store in Tavistock in Devon, selling the latest tech and offering IT services to residential and business customers. Read More…

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